Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis

Author:R.C. Lewis [Lewis, R.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2015-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

We keep working on technological things, building some gadgets and taking others apart. Tiav continues to be surprised when I manage things without being able to read, and sometimes without waiting for him to explain. I can’t figure out the words to make him understand, probably because I don’t understand, either. I just know that the way Ferinne technology is designed flows for me. It does what I want it to do, like it knows, the way I always wished my projects would work.

I don’t know whether I’m making progress. There’s something about the crystalline components we work with. The way they align energy patterns. Since the Khua-spires are made of crystal, too, there might be a useful connection there, something that can help free my brothers. Even if I’m wrong about that, the experience of things making sense and working tickles my brain. I have to believe if I keep chasing that feeling, eventually the right idea will spark. My extreme focus on building assorted gadgets must seem strange to Tiav, but he doesn’t question it. If anything, his smiles and patience hint that he finds it amusing with a side of fascinating.

At the end of another day of nonstop tinkering, I’m ready to keep going for a few more hours like we have the past few nights. Tiav has other ideas, because he clears the screen and picks up my tools.

“Jahmari once told me an old Crimna saying about obsession,” he says, tucking the tools away. “It’s fine to feed one, as long as you starve it once in a while, too.”

I raise my eyebrows. That kind of talk would make me hungry, except we just ate.

“It’s called taking a break. And I’ll apologize in advance, because it means another ride in a streamer.”

That changes my expression in a hurry. The only interest I have in streamers is taking one apart to see how it works.

His own expression is a combination of relaxed and eager as he offers me his hand. “Please? I want to show you something. I think you’ll like it.”

My resistance melts, and I take the offered hand. The work will wait.

The streamer ride is what it always is, if a little longer than usual, and I’m glad when it’s over. Upon opening my eyes and getting out, however, I have no idea where we are. No sign of the buildings of Podra, and no sign of the usual hills and woods surrounding it, or the mountains in the distance. This place is flatter. I turn, and maybe I do see the mountains, much farther away than before. I can only see them at all because one of the smaller moons is peeking over the edge.

Tiav takes my hand again and guides me in the opposite direction. “Over here. Come on.”

Several steps away from the streamer, I’m able to see enough to know the ground ends just ahead of us, because there’s something else out there. The ocean. We’re on a cliff above it. Tiav tries to lead me right to the edge, but I hold back.

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